we miss leo k
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why is Minnesota paying you for the privilege of helping you be cap compliant. Kerfoot's a fine player, sure, but with 53 hours (as i'm typing) left before Toronto needs to shed about $2.9M to get under the cap, why would the Wild use the majority of the $3.7M they have in cap space to add another middle-6 guy that doesn't really fit in their lineup to begin with.
i'm gonna defer to Wild fans if they wanna correct me but I assume their top 9 is gonna be something like:
Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello
Boldy-Gaudreau-Jost
Foligno-JEE-Greenway
The only spot there I can see Kerfoot upgrading enough to make a deal is the Jost spot at RW2, but I also can see why a team would want to run with a 24 year old RFA making $2M over a 28 year old pending UFA making $3.5M - at least to start the season, I'd rather go with the guy who has a better shot of being here next year to see what he's got.